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Geographic maps and the NOC wall
↩ Diagrams
A Geographic Map plots your sites on a real map and animates the traffic between them. It's a sixth diagram type, alongside Topology, Rack, Physical Network, Device Panel and Floor Plan.
Building one
Open Diagrams, create a diagram of type Geographic Map, and place your sites. Sites appear where their coordinates put them — see Adding a site for setting a site's location.
Links between sites can be backed by a real interface, so the line carries measured throughput rather than a decorative animation. The heavier the traffic, the more the flow shows it.
Link traffic is up to five minutes old. The map shows an "as of" time alongside it and never implies live data, because pretending to be real-time is worse than being five minutes behind and saying so.
The NOC wall
From the map editor, Open the full-screen wall view strips the interface away and leaves the map alone — intended for a screen on the wall of an office or operations room.
⚠ A wall display needs signing in again every seven days. Plan for it: a screen that quietly logged out three days ago looks exactly like a screen showing an untroubled network.
Notes & tips
- Back links with real interfaces wherever you can. An animated line with no measurement behind it looks identical to one with, which is misleading on a wall.
- Pair the wall with the NOC overview on a second screen — one shows where, the other shows what.